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Daniel Boone (Kentucky
He is one of the most widely known American frontiersmen. His fame stems from his exploits during the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. -
Eli Whitney invented cotton gin
He quickley learned that Southern planters were in desperate need of a way to make growing of cotton profitable. He knew that if he invented the cotton machine, he could apply to the federal government for a patent. If Whitney was granted, he could have exclusive rights to his invention for 14 years. The yield of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800. America was growing three-quarters of the world's cotton. This cotton was shipped to England or New England and was made into cloth. -
The Louisiana Purchase
This was a land deal between the United States and France. Began in the 17th century. By the middle of the 18th century, France controlled more of the present-day United States than any other European power. 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France. In 1804, a territorial government was established. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
This expedition paddled its way down Ohio as it prepared the Expedition to be launched officially from Camp Wood. In 1805, they set out on the next leg of its journey. Traveled up the Missouri to present-day Three Forks, Montana, to the western-most tributary, the Jefferson River. This route delivered the explores to the doorstep of the Shoshone Indians. They reported their findings to Jefferson in September 1806. -
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The Oregon Trial
The Oregon trial was laid down by traders and fur trappers. Could only travel by horse or foot. By 1836, the first migrant train of wagons was put together. Started in Independance, Missouri. There were several starting points in Nebraska Territory, Iowa and Missouri. When the first railroad was completed, allowing faster and more convenient travel, use of the trial quickly declined. -
War of 1812
Armed conflict between the United States and the British Empire. British restricted the American trade since they feared it was harmful for their war with France. The Americans objected to the British Empire restricting their trade and snatching their sailors to serve on British ships. -
Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
The Indian removal took place in Northern states. In Illinois and Wisconsin, the bloody Black Hawk War in 1832 opened to white settlement millions of acres of land that had belonged to the Sauk, Fox and other native nations. In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time. The Cherokee people were divided. By 1838, only about 2,000 Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian territory. By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off. -
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
The Oregon Territory was a very large area of land. In the 1800s, white settlers began to move there. Some of the first settlers in the West were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. In 1835, Marcus went to Oregon to look for a good place to build a mission. In 1836, they got married. They both wanted to be missionaries. Decided to start a mission near the Cayuse Indian Tribe. At first, the Cayuse were interested in what the missionaries were doing. Didn't last long.Native Americans saw them as a threat -
Texas Revolution
In the early 1800s Texas was a sparsely populated and weakly goverend region that functioned as part of the Mexican state of Coahuila and Texas. In 1834 a political crisis resulted in the overthrow of the constitution of 1824. The subsequent execution of more than 280 Texan prisoners at Goliad. -
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Manifest Destiny
The term manifest destiny originated in the 1840s. Expressed the belief that it was Anglo-Saxon Americans' providential mission to expand their civilization and institutions across the bredth of North America. The term and the concept were taken up by those desiring to secure. -
The Mexican War
The Mexican war began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on April 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on September 14, 1847. -
The Donner Party
The Donner party left Springfield, Illions, in April 1846. Led by two wealthy brothers, Jacob and George Donner. The emigrants decided to leave the established trial and take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. -
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The California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a period in American History which began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. After 1850, the surface gold in California largely disappeared, even as miners continued to arrive. In 1853, the new technique of hydraulic mining brought enormous profits but destroyed much of the region's landscape. -
John Fremont (in California)
He has a colorful California history until he has been eulogized for his leadership role in early California. Between 1842 and 1854 he reowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legenday scout and Indian fighter, boldly ventured into untamed territory to fulfill America's "manifest destiny." -
The Battle of Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand)
A treaty had given the Sioux exclusive rights to the Black Hills, when gold was later discovered in the area, white miners flocked to the territory. Custer's job was to force the Indians back to their reservations. Some refused. Custer planned to attack the Indian camp from three sides. The first two groups were immediately forced to retreat to one side of the river. -
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. In 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the Ghost Dance spiritual movement.
